Barbara Castle Quotes
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
Quotes to Explore
-
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
-
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
-
What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
-
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
-
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
-
The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
-
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
-
When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
-
More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
-
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
-
You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
-
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
-
It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
-
Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
-
If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
-
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
-
On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
-
Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
-
Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.
-
You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.
-
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
-
Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
-
Owners own teams so that they might move them to another municipality with better luxury boxes.
-
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
